In the Album series, Uriarte investigates a subject that has powered photography from its very earliest beginnings—yet one that has often been relegated to the amateur sphere—the family album.

In these seemingly benign photos, the author introduces us to a new visual dimension, that of faceless memory. By careful editing himself out of family photos, the effects of time and the distortions of memory take on a twilight-zone quality. As a result of this simple action, normal scenes, every day recollections, are approached in a wholly new way.

—LensCulture

Editor's Note: Jon Uriarte's work is part of "Photography 2.0", a fantastic exhibition among many in the program of PHotoEspana 2014. The festival is running in locations all over Madrid from June 4 - July 27, 2014.

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Let's sit down before we go is a portrait of the places Bertien van Manen visited and the people she met, stayed with and became friends with during her travels across Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Siberia, Tatarstan and Uzbekistan. It seems little changed over the 20 years from when she started in 1991, and 2009, when the last photographs in the book were taken.